St. Josef am Wolfersberg Church (Penzing)

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The St. Josef am Wolfersberg Church is a Roman Catholic parish church in the 14th district of Penzing in Vienna .

St. Josef am Wolfersberg Church

Location and architecture

The St. Josef am Wolfersberg Church is located at Anzbachgasse 89 in the Hütteldorf district . It is structurally adapted to the slope at the foot of the eponymous Wolfersberg . It lies at 267  m above sea level. A. and thus 55 m below the summit of Wolfersberg. Immediately to the west of the building is the small Franz Sauer Park. The church has a bell tower on its northwest corner. The main portal is on the north gable facade. Above this is a crucifixion group , which was designed according to a design by Ladislaus Hruska , the architect of the church.

The interior is rectangular and ends in the south with a choir . The altar wall, which depicts the life of St. Joseph (left) and St. Francis of Assisi (right) in relief , was designed by Heinrich Tahedl and Franz Pöhacker . Tahedl also created several frescoes on the southern wall of the building. Below is the former communion bench with reliefs by Karl Steiner on it. The organ from 1956 comes from Johann M. Kauffmann . Three chapels are attached to the west side of the church. The baptistery has a glass mosaic by Joseph Pope , which depicts the baptism of Jesus .

history

During the First World War , the Wolfersberg and Bierhäuselbergs were cut down by the people of Vienna and small allotments were settled in order to alleviate the need for firewood and food. In the post-war period, the wild settlement was legalized with building rights contracts and in 1932 the project was born to sell the common refuge of the settlers and convert it into an emergency church . The refuge became the property of the City of Vienna, was leased and redesigned on the initiative of the settler Ignaz Binder and consecrated to St. Joseph on December 9, 1934 with Prelate Josef Wagner . Mayor Richard Schmitz was among those present .

The expansion of the emergency church under Father Franz Sauer of the Order of the Regulated Tertiary of St. Francis through the purchase and extension of a parsonage was considerable in economic hardship. During the Nazi era , the risk of the building and property being confiscated by Cardinal Theodor Innitzer was averted in good time by the objection of the Spanish consulate and the elevation of the pastoral care area to the parish on October 1, 1939 . Out of anger and disappointment, the church opponents smashed all the window panes by throwing stones on one of the following nights. From 1941 to 1945 the theologian Paul Michalke worked as a chaplain in the parish. During the Battle of Vienna in 1945, the attack of the Soviet troops also went over the Wolfersberg, which caused a lot of suffering and great damage, but the emergency church remained undamaged.

After the war, the emergency church was expanded again and consecrated by Cardinal Theodor Innitzer on October 6, 1946. With the Restitution Act , the sale of the shelter to the City of Vienna was renegotiated in 1934 and the parish was forced to pay damages to the Siedlerbund. As the church was too small again, it was rebuilt on the site according to plans by architect Ladislaus Hruska. The new church was consecrated again by Cardinal Theodor Innitzer on October 30, 1949, on the feast of Christ the King . In 1961 a parish hall was added.

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Dehio-Handbuch Wien. X. to XIX. and XXI. to XXIII. District . Edited by Federal Monuments Office. Anton Schroll, Vienna 1996, ISBN 3-7031-0693-X , pp. 279-280
  2. ↑ Musikzug Wolfersberg Photo: Father Franz Sauer, and architect Ladislaus Hruska in construction workers' clothing
  3. ↑ Musikzug Wolfersberg Mathilde Sunko, Walter Janda, Agathe Springer: History and origin of the church and parish of St. Josef am Wolfersberg , undated.

Web links

Commons : St.-Josef-am-Wolfersberg-Kirche  - Collection of pictures, videos and audio files

Coordinates: 48 ° 12 ′ 27.4 ″  N , 16 ° 14 ′ 43.5 ″  E